Summer’s over, and CRLS’s campus is lively once again. Welcome to the 135th volume of the Register Forum! This year, the Register Forum will continue to cover all your favorites: A capella jams, local elections, the best of CRLS sports, and, of course, the monthly crossword.
Established as the C.M.T.S. Register in 1891, the Register Forum has lived through three name changes, but its premise has always remained the same: to encapsulate the Cambridge student experience. This year will be no different. It’s our goal to provide quality coverage, while preserving what makes the Register Forum so special: the diverse voices of student journalists.
This year, the Register Forum is in for a big change. Mr. Steven Matteo, the Register Forum’s advisor since 2007, has stepped down. The Register Forum bids him a sad farewell, and we are appreciative of his unwavering dedication and enthusiasm over the past 18 years. Mr. Matteo will be succeeded by advisors Mr. Erik Scott and Ms. Sarah Walker. Both Mr. Scott and Ms. Walker are delighted to help make the paper possible, telling the Register Forum, “We are humbled and honored to take over from Mr. Matteo, whose service to the paper and its editors is unmatched.” Mr. Scott and Ms. Walker continue, “[We] are excited to help the editors guide the Register Forum into a new era of exceptional student journalism.”
This year’s changes don’t end there. Due to the growing developments in Artificial Intelligence, the Register Forum is introducing an official AI policy. We aim to minimize the influence AI has on the paper, with the preservation of student voices at the forefront of our minds. For the past 135 years, the Register Forum has been a place for students to practice all aspects of journalism—writing, editing, designing, drawing, photographing—and we’re taking steps to ensure it’ll foster the same sense of creativity 135 years from today.
What’s more, the Register Forum’s media opportunities are expanding! Photo essays, a collection of six to eight captioned photographs, are debuting as a media option. We encourage any interested photographers to pitch a photo essay, whether the topic is as important as documenting a protest, or as lighthearted as capturing a Falcon victory.
Finally, we want to acknowledge the horror that is seeing a Thanksgiving recipe appear on the Register Forum website in June. This year, we aim to have a much quicker turnaround for digitizing articles. We want everyone in the CRLS community to access up-to-date news, even in the unfortunate event that you oversleep the Register Forum’s 8 a.m. distribution.
As inspiring as the future is, the memories of pitching our first articles are still fresh in our minds. We couldn’t have forecasted how meaningful this newspaper would become to our experience at CRLS. To anyone interested in the Register Forum: write that article, take that photo, or just join us on the first Tuesday of the month for our NewsStorms. We cannot wait to make the most of the Register Forum’s 135th year, and we hope you’ll join us too!
This article also appears in our September 2025 print edition.
